Further education in the UK is a rapidly changing and expanding sector, central to government educational policy. Post-Compulsory Education and the New Millennium seeks to provide an up-to-date overview of the post-compulsory sector of education and analyse the current trends and policies likely to affect both teachers and teacher trainers.
The contributors have established national and international reputations in the post-16 education field and provide analytical and critical accounts of:
Further education under New Labour National Vocational Qualifications New qualifications and Patterns of Assessment Teacher education and staff development Management and funding of further and higher education
The book also includes an Anglo-German comparison of vocational education and transitions in employment and concludes by considering future perspectives on post-compulsory education.
1. The Changing Framework of Post-16 Education - the Rhetoric of Reform,
David Gray and Colin Griffin, School of Educational Studies, University of
Surrey. Part 1: Issues in Vocational Education and Training.
2. Vocational
Education and Training into the New Millennium, Clyde Chitty, Goldsmiths
College, University of London.
3. Further Education under New Labour -
Rhetoric and Reality, Bill Bailey and Patrick Ainley, University of
Greenwich.
4. Lifelong Learning: An Agenda for a Late-modern Future, Peter
Jarvis, University of Surrey. Part 2: The New Qualifications.
5. Vocational
Training: Career Guidance, Work and Citzenship: education in democracy, Barry
Hutchinson, University of Ulster at Jordanstown.
6. Ideology and Curriculum
Policy Under the Old and New Conservatives: GNVQ Revisited, Dennis Gleeson,
University of Keele and Phil Hodkinson, Manchester Metropolitan University.
7. Inclusive Lifelong Learning or Stratified Lifelong Training? Educational
Policy Developments in Late Modernity, Martin Dyke, Farnborough College of
Technology. Part 3: Management and Funding.
8. The Management of Teaching in
Further Education: Issues From a Case Study, Geoffrey Elliott, Worcester
College of Higher Education.
9. Cinderella FE - You Shall Go to the Ball!:
Markets, Funding and Growth in Further Education, Don Bradley, Royal Forest
of Dean College.
10. Ethos as Tradition and Ethos in Practice: Sixth Form
Colleges After Incorporation, John Robinson, Crewe School of Education,
Manchester Metropolitan University.
11. Mass Market Higher Education, Gareth
Williams Centre for Higher Education Studies, Institute of Education, London.
Part 4: Initial Teacher Education.
12. Accrediting Lecturers Using
Competence-based Approaches: a Cautionary Tale, Geoffrey Elliott, Worcester
College of Higher Education.
13. Towards Professionalism: Teaching in Further
Education, Norman Lucas, Centre for Higher Education Studies, Institute of
Education, London. Part 5: International Comparisons.
14. Finding New Ways to
Work, Karen Evans, University of Surrey, Matina Behrens and Jens Kaluza.
David E. Gray is Director of Work-based Learning at the School of Educational Studies, University of Surrey. His main research interests are special needs education and further education. Colin Griffin is Associate Lecturer at the School of Educational Studies, University of Surrey.
